Potty training !

Warning... If you don't like hearing about bowel movements then maybe this isn't the post for you to read.

Last Thursday we really started the potty training process. I had this idea in my head that I was going to do nothing for 3 days but stay home and focus on Ella using the toilet. By the end of that first day I quickly aborted my original plan. I was so exhausted from being stuck in the house all day. Training Ella was not difficult or stressful but not being able to leave the house exasperated all my pregnancy symptoms. I was tired, nauseous, and achey. But thankfully that one day set the ground work for us to keep working on it without any major accidents or set backs. She has only had 4 accidents since we have started this process.

Ella loves wearing her big girl underwear. She even likes picking out which pair she is going to wear that day. Unfortunately not all of potty training has been easy or fun for Ella. For the past few months Ella has been dealing with some painful constipation. She will tell me over and over again while crying that she is going poop. This goes on for about a day and half sometimes two before she has a successful bowel movement. After playing around with her diet and pushing her to drink so much water she could be a fish, I got tired of it and took her to the doctor. The doctor suggested using Miralax . Finally after a week of mixing it in to her milk we are having some improvements with this particular function. As you can see on her potty chart she received her first two stickers in the "poopy" column today! I'm so proud of her and excited for me. I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! I feel like now that we have crossed this hurdle I can be confident to keep her in underwear when we leave the house now. Before she would cry every 5-10 mins saying she had to poop on toilet just to sit down and quickly jump back up and say "All Done!" or "No, I'm afraid". On Tuesday while grocery shopping she yelled out in the middle of the dairy aisle " I'm REALLY going poop!!". Embarrassing ...yes, productive ... no. Still no BM when we got home. So maybe by the time we have ran out of spaces on this chart I can stop talking and hearing about crap all day long. Well..... Until baby# 2 comes around.